Writing Quotes · Page 685

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

— Richard Ford

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”

— Elinor Florence

“When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong…

— John C. Bean

“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.”

— Walter Benjamin

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

— Ted Nugent

I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four-…

— Tiger Woods

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver…

— Kristen Stewart

“It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well…

— Annie Dillard

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the…

— Brian Wilson

... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also…

— Donald Knuth

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If…

— Arthur Ashe

A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit…

— Alice Steinbach

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Maman had been a gifted writer. Pari has read every word Maman had written in French and every poem she had translated…

— Khaled Hosseini

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your…

— Sam Lipsyte

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper…

— Edward Gibbon

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to…

— Walter Kirn

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

— Mason Cooley

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

— Harry Redknapp

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

— James Lipton

I want to sing something that I have written from scratch. How cool would that be.

— Jonita Gandhi

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

“I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.”

— Wilco

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.”

— Theodora Goss